Posts by Cross of Christ Secretary

Words can have so much power. They can tear down and destroy. Or they can build up and inspire. We’re using words all the time. We’re constantly communicating verbally and in print. Much of it seems neutral. Much of it is downright nasty. Because words can hurt. There’s an art to communication. A way of…

We live in a culture of screaming and fighting. It seems like, in order to engage with important and timely issues, you’re required to ridicule those who disagree, overstate every position, and scream as loudly as you can in order to be heard. Wouldn’t it be great if we could engage without the bitterness? God…

It is important to live humbly. Jesus commends the meek. However, that doesn’t ever mean that Christians are supposed to be push-overs. Turning the other cheek doesn’t mean you’re a doormat with no backbone. Followers of Jesus have tremendous hope. They have access to divine strength. They are forgiven, saved, unconditionally loved, secure in the…

Do you ever feel like your faith is stuck? Not going anywhere? It’s great to have a stronger faith, but strong faith doesn’t grow overnight. Neither do plants. Neither do kids. Nothing becomes full-grown overnight. You can be patient with your faith-life. God’s Word makes it grow. Stay in the Word. With time, by God’s…

You can’t do it. What’s done is done. You can’t go back and change what has happened. You can’t undo the hurt or the regret. You can’t. But God can. He takes it all away. He sends it out where it will never be seen again. He will never remember it. Never bring it up.…

A book from God. His very words. Maybe not everything we’d love to know, but everything we need to know to be okay in the end. The Bible really is God’s message to the world. And it’s good news. We don’t have to try and reach up far enough to God. We can’t. We don’t…

The Bible says their job is to serve. To serve people. Us. Holy, swift, glorious, amazingly powerful beings. Sent from heaven to serve us! If angels are real, that means we have power from heaven watching over us. Real protection surrounding us. Watchful care always with us. To serve God’s people and keep them safe.…

We could actually come back to life? We can get another life after this one? A better one? Even though we die, we can really live again? If the resurrection of the dead was real, do you know what that would mean? It would mean everything is headed toward that. This life is not the…

If sin is a real thing, then it validates what we’ve all been feeling. That there’s something really wrong with the world. Something desperately wrong with humanity. Something very wrong inside of us. The reality of sin describes why it’s so destructive to live outside of the way we were designed to live. And it…

It would mean that there is something in store that is perfect, as it was always supposed to be. It would mean that we could live forever in the existence we were always made for. It would mean that we could get through even the worst of days in this life, because this life isn’t…